Philosophical Colloquium of the Institute of Philosophy
Table of contents
Lectures in the 2026/27 Winter Semester
Start: Every Wednesday at 5:00 p.m., Room: TBA
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October 28, 2026 |
Roman Heil (TU Dresden) | "Doxastic Interventions: Are We Epistemically Obliged to Intervene in Each Other’s Believing?" |
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Abstract: A classical puzzle about epistemic deontology is that it seems to be true that we ought to believe or disbelieve many things, yet such ‘oughts’ seem to presuppose a form of voluntary control that we (generally) lack. An underappreciated response to this puzzle says that there are true epistemic ‘oughts’ that do not presuppose voluntary control, namely evaluative ‘oughts’, which concern how things ought to be (e.g., one's beliefs ought to be well supported by one's evidence). Yet such evaluative ‘oughts’ have in turn been thought to entail obligations to bring about how things ought to be. My unorthodox claim will be that the epistemic obligations in question concern the beliefs of others. In my talk, I will motivate and develop an account of these interpersonal doxastic obligations by drawing inspiration from legal theory, where structurally analogous obligations are well studied and have been systematically codified. More specifically, I will draw on conceptualizations of duty-to-rescue laws to spell out and defend the claim that we are epistemically obliged to intervene in each other’s believing. |
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| November 11, 2026 | Lauren Freeman (University of Louisville) |
"Epistemic Microaggressions and Epistemic Harm in Medicine" |
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December 2, 2026 |
Ellen Möller (University of Wuppertal) | "Montaigne als Dialogpartner beim Philosophieren mit Kindern" |
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| January 13, 2027 | Emma Braccini (TU Dresden) |
"The Pragmatic Dimension of Scientific Understanding: Understanding Climate Extremes" |
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| January 27, 2027 | Vincent Lam (Bern) |
"Toward a Justice-Oriented Climate Science" |
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